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Topical tale with a lack of essential depth.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030908
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

The Mob Orange Tree, Richmond

THE theatre-world has long given the cold shoulder to the Edwardian dramatist John Galsworthy. But in Sam Walters's spirited revival of this play from 1914, with Elgar's 1st Symphony sounding intermittent notes of musical irony, The Mob proves a radical society drama and iseerily topical. Stephen More, Galsworthy's MP hero, sacrifices his junior ministerial post, his constituency and his family's admiration by speaking out in the Commons and elsewhere against Britain's decision to wage a popular war against some ...

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